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Antonio Brown's attorney says the Tampa Bay Buccaneers terminated the wide receiver's contract last week for failing to show up for a doctor's appointment that he could not make, calling the move a "surprise attack" in a series of tweets.

"We were in the midst of scheduling an appointment with the Bucs' chosen surgeon when we learned, via Twitter, that they terminated AB on Thursday for not seeing that very same surgeon," attorney Sean Burstyn tweeted. "... The Bucs picked an arbitrary appointment time outside of normal business hours early Thursday morning. They also fumbled around with a Wednesday afternoon appt at the last minute. (Bucs' new interest in AB's health was a surprise. Wasn't AB 'not a Buc' on Sunday night?)"

Burstyn wrote that they tried to reschedule and said the Buccaneers are claiming that Brown was "refusing to show up to a doctor's appointment" as justification for his release.

"The Bucs did this because they know that Coach Arians' on-the-field termination of AB was degrading, inhumane, abusive, and unlawful. So they tried covering it up using their latest dirty trick: 'Surprise attack' medical care that they [never] reasonably planned for AB to receive," Burstyn tweeted. "This was pure gamesmanship to create a pretextual termination. All Antonio did was ask to be seen at a reasonable hour by a doctor with current medical records. When AB spoke up about his health this week, he was fired. On the field, then on Twitter."

LOL!


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